Happy Halloween!
This past weekend my sister was throwing a Halloween party for the extended family and, two days before, she came to me and asked if I'd make a Halloween mix playlist for the party. I knew she was expecting something containing ~10-15 tracks of mainly the "classics" like Monster Mash and a few instrumental pieces like the theme music of Twilight Zone and Psycho; however, I immediately thought of the eerie music from Shinsekai Yori and knew I needed to include that as well.
This set off a search through my other anime soundtrack albums - which, admittedly, is on the thin side - and I harvested almost 2 hours of music to use. I thought someone might find this list of anime songs useful in constructing their own playlist so I'm writing this post to share.
Since this CD was going to be listened to by mainly non-anime and/or non-Japanese speakers, I had to limit myself to instrumental anime pieces. The only time I broke that was to include the closing song from Aku no Hana because it was creepy enough to include by itself. At the party, I got a few positive comments after it played - even the non-anime watchers found it creepy.
As for instrumental tracks this is what I used:
Hataraku Maou-sama!
02 - Ente Isla
07 - Maoujou
19 - Fuon
Shingeki no Kyojin
06 - Army Go
08 - DOA (has vocals but they're English and too perfect to pass up)
14 - XL-TT
Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken - Phantom Blood
05 - Shisen Kara no Kikan
Nekomonogatari (Kuro)
17 - Black Hanekawa
22 - The Demon Blade Kokorowatari
Psycho-Pass
09 - Kansatsugan
10 - Kyouhaku Kannen
Shinsekai Yori
01 - Kage no Denshouka Dai Ichibu
02 - Darkside of Heart
04 - Dark Village
05 - Akki
12 - Loneliness
13 - Strange Feeling
18 - Creeping Crisis
Puella Magi Madoka Magica OST
03 - Gradus prohibitus
09 - Puella in somnio
10 - Umbra nigra
Bakemonogatari Complete Music Works Songs & Soundtracks
08 - Oumagatoki
20 - Kekkai
21 - Gehou
25 - Ika, Kaisou
Bakemonogatari Gekihan Ongakushuu Sono
04 - machi dan chimata setsu
05 - kannen
10 - shugendou
11 - kami iki
Paranoia Agent
11 - Baiyou
Paprika
03 - Ou Mono
12 - Parade (instrumental)
Ghost Hunt
07 - Fuon
08 - Kaidan Banashi
26 - Doukutsu
Jigoku Shoujo
01 - Shousou
10 - Ake ni Somaru
18 - Michiteiku Yami
This was the extent of the anime music I used but I wasn't done finding tracks for this Halloween playlist. I also used tracks from the Nightmare Before Christmas OST - Marilyn Manson's version of This is Halloween is awesome - as well as most of Halloween Hootenanny, which was put together by Rob Zombie, and Tool's Lateralus album, for flavor. I also threw in a handful of various tracks from Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising to Blue Foundation's Eyes On Fire to Evanescenece's Bring Me To Life, to name a few. At this point I finally included the "classics" like Thriller and Monster Mash and saw that I was closing in on 6 hours of music. Perfect. I mixed everything up good and I was done.
I received very good feedback from the resultant Halloween playlist but, for next year, I'm already wondering what I've overlooked. I'd really appreciate it if persons better versed in anime soundtracks, who see obvious omissions, would leave a comment as to which one(s) I should check out.
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